As Lead Automation Specialist you will be expected to provide effective leadership to a team of Automation.

Engineers & Technicians, and manage the project team from design concept to implementation of the automation solution. You will be expected tomanage the delivery of all site automation requirements required to support the business through the use of internal and external resources; todevelop relationships with external vendors to identify suitable resources that can be utilized to support issues resolution when required; todevelop, execute and communicate a site automation strategy looking at long-term issues with support, reliability, redundancy etc, and todevelop medium to long-term capital investment plans for site automation systems.

Responsibilities:

To provide specialist technical knowledge and project management expertise to the Automations engineering team

To be responsible for maintaining control of the automation cost within annual budget.

To lead the Automation team to deliver site automation projects, developing project scope, budget, capital approval and implementation plan

To manage and develop the staff in the automation engineering department through involvement, delegation, and regular reviews of performance

To manage and develop the staff in the automation engineering department through involvement, delegation, and regular reviews of performance.

To work closely with Manufacturing engineering/Product R&D within the organisation , and corporate sites to design/develop future products/processes leading

To have overall responsibility for implementing capital expenditure projects and budget preparation for the plant.

To maintain control of financial and human resources of the automation engineering department in compliance with policies and systems

To develop, establish, and maintain the infrastructure required to achieve conformity to product and servicing requirements ( CE-Mark, ISO13485 )

To liaise on a cross-company basis with operations, engineering, R&D, marketing, manufacturing staff.

To make provisions for having Production Engineering Support available to existing Production Processes

To scope out automations projects with due regard to objectives; need, cost, risk, lead time and resources.

To manage the installation and qualification of new or additional processes

To manage the development and delivery of all automation KPI's in association with plant KPI's.

To propose and implement measures for business risk minimization and disaster recovery.

To maintain an oversight of New Product Introduction to the site and how this can impact on custom equipment requirements.

To manage the development of concept designs, with estimate of costs, as part of the capital requisition process

To understand the automation resources skill set and capabilities and to plan the development of the team.

To provide effective supervision of people which includes headcount planning; recruitment and selection; training &development; timekeeping and attendance; resolution of issues, and timely completion of annual performance appraisals

Skills, Experience and Qualifications:

Successful candidate must have a track record of success in an engineering environment, an Engineering Degree or equivalentand at least 10 years’ experience in medical device manufacturing environment is required, with at least 5 years atsupervisory/managerial level